In an oppressive dystopian future, Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which twelve teenagers are chosen at random to fight to the death.
Further Reading
- Danielle Russell, ‘Courageous Mothering: Katniss Everdeen as Outlaw Mother in The Hunger Games Trilogy’ in Motherhood and Single-Lone Parenting: A Twenty-First Century Perspective
- Mark Fisher, ‘Precarious Dystopias: The Hunger Games, in Time, and Never Let Me Go’ in Film Quarterly Vol. 65, No. 4 (Summer 2012)
- James Keller, ‘Meta-Cinema and Meta-Marketing: Gary Ross’s “The Hunger Games”, an Allegory of Its Own Making’ in Studies in Popular Culture Vol. 35, No. 2 (Spring 2013)
- Riley McGuire, ‘Queer Children, Queer Futures: Navigating “lifedeath” in “The Hunger Games”‘ in Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal Vol. 48, No. 2 (June 2015)
- Jeffrey A. Brown, ‘GIRL REVOLUTIONARIES: Neoliberalist, Postfeminist, and Feminist Heroines’ in Beyond Bombshells: The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture